Composition for filling the pores of wood



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-UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

HENRY W. MATTIOK, OF LAWBENOEBURG, INDIANA.

COMPOSITION FOR FILLING THE PORE S OF WOOD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,686, dated. May 17, 1881.

' Application filed August 14, 1650. (Specimens) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY W. MATTIGK of Lawrenceburg, Dearborn county, Indiana, have invented a Composition of Matter for Filling the Pores of Wood, of which the following is a specification. I

The object of my invention is to produce composition which may be applied with a brush and will render unnecessary a subsequent rubbing with rags or analogous substance.

I cut twelve ounces of gum-shellac in twenty-six ounces of alcohol,which makes one quart I next take eight ounces of kauri gum, nineteen and a half ounces of spirits of turpentine, and four and one-quarter ounces of boiled linseed oil, of which onefourth of an ounce is red lead. This forms a quart of varnish. I then take two ounces of kauri gum, six and one-eighth ounces of raw 2o linseed-oil, two and one-eighth ounces of red lead, and eighteen ounces of spirits of turefficacy by numerous experiments, and find that it fully answers the purpose for which it is intended.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of my invention,what I claim as new is- A composition for filling the pores of wood, consistingof gumshellac cut in alcohol, kauri gum, spirits of turpentine, drying-oil, raw linseed-oil, and red lead, in about the proportions described.

HENRY WILLIAM MATTIOK.

Witnesses:

J OHN KNOEBEL, CHRIST. LoMMEL. 

